sysctl way too slow

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On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote:

> It probably depends on your BIOS. This is the same call on my
> system:
> % time sysctl -n hw.acpi.battery.life hw.acpi.battery.time hw.acpi.battery.state
> 100
> -1
> 0
> sysctl -n hw.acpi.battery.life hw.acpi.battery.time hw.acpi.battery.state  0.00s user 0.01s system 96% cpu 0.013 total
>
> As you can see 33 times faster than on your system.
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next time i reboot this laptop, i'll stick an ubuntu CD in and see if it 
takes as long to get the info. i guess if it does take as long, then we 
can blame the hardware.


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